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The most interesting thing about weed is what happens before you smoke it. WeedWeek is a podcast about, yes, weed — the business of it, the culture around it, health, science, criminal justice, and everything in between. Journalists Alex Halperin and Donnell Alexander will update you each week on the latest in the world of cannabis and bring you conversations with people who are shaping the industry.
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109. Chelsea Cebara's Weed Sexuality Defies Gravity
A special episode with the co-founder of acclaimed cannabis lubricant brand Velvet Swing. Chelsea Cebara wasn’t a cannabis consumer when she arrived in Seattle as a Florida transplant. Trained in the scientific method, Cebara came to the creation of her product through unorthodox avenues.Cebara entered the cannabis industry while teaching sex education various Seattle weed and sex shops.A week prior to Washington State legalization, a painful endometriosis attack brought her to the cannabis p...
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Freezer Stash 1: Sister Kate's Cannabis Devotion
Our first Freezer Stash release is an interview with Sister Kate, who declared herself a nun in 2014 and has dedicated herself to compassionate activism. Sister Kate and the Sisters of the Valley make the grow hemp in a spiritual environment, specifically a farm outside of Merced, California.The documentary Breaking Habits covers Sister Kate's fascinating pre-cannabis life. The sisters' production calendar is based on the cycles of the moon. The company is based outside of Merced, C...
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Freezer Stash #3: WeedMaps' Nic Juarez on Cannabis Culture Evolution
For our final installment of this series, we bring you our once-exclusive 2019 discussion with the culture editor at Weedmaps. Nic joins Alex and Donny in talk about:Our rapidly changing cannabis cultureCreating content for Weedmaps, and the bravery of writing about weed.The refreshingly unglamorous portrayal of marijuana in Broad City.Nicolas Juarez on TwitterAlex’s Halperin on bongsDavid Cross on cannabis cultureFollow WeedWeek on Twitter and Instagram
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108. Tammy Pettigrew Is Microdosing Toward Parenting Excellence
WeedWeek Council member Tammy Pettigrew is best known as Instagram educator @thecannabiscutie — one of the fresh voices out of Orange County weed. Alex and Donnell chat with Pettigrew about weed's place post-quarantine, and how microdosing edibles has been a recent key to pleasant parenting.An educator and cannabis advocate, Tammy Pettigrew also has a MBA.Pettigrew, who first appeared on Episode 49 of this podcast, has taken her home classroom to her garden, to further de-stigmatize the ...
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107. The Book on Jack Herer
Dan Herer’s father crashed the hemp movement into existence with his self-published 1985 book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. A new ebook edition is out, and the pioneer’s son explains why hemp’s sacred text is more relevant than ever.A post-divorce convert to cannabis, Jack Herer clashed with the established legalization movementIn 1980, the senior Herer was cited for “violation of the sedition” act for protesting pot prohibition and served 15 days in federal prison. It was there that he wrote...
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Freezer Stash 2: Chip Moore IS Mr. Dabba Hashery
In the early months of California legalization, Donny traveled to Oakland for a conversation with 4&20 Blackbirds CEO Chip Moore, also known as a mainstay of the He Ain't Heavy Alliance. The two discuss:Oakland's proud weed history and the role of activism like the Munchie Movement in it. The evolution of Moore's delivery service-turned-community organization 4&20 Blackbirds.The origins and future of social equity in California.Alex Halperin’s Cannabis Dictionarywww.amazon.com/Ca...